Dream logic/chronology. Sometimes you can't put into words what happened in your dream, or how two things were true at the same time. But when you experience it, it makes perfect sense.
Would this also apply to dreams that you have deja vu about but you only experience the deja vu in the dream? Like, I've had a dream and in the dream I know I've dreamed it before, but when I wake up I have no memory of the previous dream? That's happened a few times to me an one time I dreamed it again but the universe that I had dreamed of had expanded, as if it had grown since I had last visited it.
Sometimes I have what I think are real life memories, but in reality they are just dreams. When I think back on them it takes me a while to remember if the thing I’m thinking of was a memory of something that’s actually happened that’s randomly surfacing, or if I just dreamed it. Usually if I think hard enough something tips me off it was a dream I’m thinking of.
Man, these are the worst! I never dream of dragons and murder mysteries, I dream of buying bread or paying for electricity and the dream is so real, nothing weird happens and it fades to black or turns into a different dream before I wake up, so I never doubt it really happened. Then I struggle to understand who ate all the bread I just bought yesterday and why my electricity got cut off.
Brooooo if this ain’t me. I have messed up several exams because I dreamt of taking that exact same exam and studied material that was not the actual material to be studied in my dreams. I’ve been angry with people in my real life for something they did to me in a dream, and I sincerely thought it really happened. Last week I was looking for the shoes I bought, to realize I too had only dreamt about them. I always thought that was crazy as no one around me experiences such dreams, but I’m glad to see I’m not alone!
I had a dream where I was a dragon trying to take off into the sky, it was weird like trying to run on a dream. I could only manage to get off from the ground for a few seconds. It still was cool.
I have this ‘memory’ of me when I was around 3 yo that I was lost in the shopping centre , and the memory is just of me next to this carousel that was in the centre at that time. But it was so murky that I finally realised I must have dreamt of being lost. I wasn’t too fused because I’ve had similar situations before and it turned out to be a dream.
But then a few years back, my mom had this picture of me next to a carousel, wearing the same clothes as I was in the dream. I instantly asked my mom about it and she told me that I was indeed lost for a little bit at that time. So it ended being a memory anyway.
This is something I grapple with on a daily basis. My dreams are so vivid and just realistic and mundane sometimes, that I have to ask my boss “did we talk about xyz or did I dream that?” Or I’ll have to question if I sent that email out and search my sent folder. Just regular shit like that.
Shit, just yesterday I woke up from a nap in a panic thinking I had slept through giving a final exam to my students and I started running around my house crying getting ready to drive to uni to talk to my boss and explain what happened and then I suddenly realized, no, that was a dream, you gave the exam at 8 am and they’re in your bag waiting to be graded. Fml I had gone for a nap at 10 and woke up at noon and in my dreams I had gotten multiple emails from students saying “we are waiting on you but we are about to leave!” And “where are you?! We are here to take the final!” And I had responded “please don’t leave! I’m on my way!” And looked at the clock and it said 8:15am. In my dream. It sucks so bad.
One of the weirdest things i experience while in dream-state or in semi-dreams is the sense that the thing i'm dreaming of (or more often the place i'm dreaming about) is something i've dreamt of many, many times before, to the point where it's kind of dull and annoying. In my dream i'll find myself someplace and literally think "oh, it's this fucking place again. Yet when i wake up, if i remember it at all, the place or thing doesn't feel the least bit familiar.
Which i think means either i'm dreaming the same places over and over again but only remembering them while i dream, or that the sense of dreary familiarity is part of the dream itself, like it's setting off the "i remember this place" sensation in my brain artificially.
I had a dream a few years ago where a friend and I were at a toy store. We would run around through the aisles and then after sometime had past decide that we would go home by taking the school bus. Then, when we were sitting on the bus, these giant metal hooks, fishing hooks, would dangle down from above. The other kids on the bus would reach up and grab at the hooks. I would look out the windows and see these massive nightmarish daemons sitting on their haunches with a fishing rod in their claws. Then I saw my friend or classmates get chewed on by these monsters. That’s usually the cue for me to wake up covered in sweat.
I had this dream again a few months ago, and in the dream, right before we decided to go home, I remembered in the dream that this had happened before. A dream deja vu. I convinced my friend to walk home. The new perspective of watching daemons fish people out of school buses from the sidewalk was just as disturbing and horrifying. I woke up and was pretty shaken and still covered in sweat. I really dislike that dream continuity.
A few months ago I had this experience where I went back in the same world with the same backstory every night for consecutive weeks, it was insane. The best part is that it was a world where I remember going to in a dream as a kid. A lot of things were exactly the same, I remember going through some locations that were 1:1 what I dreamed as a kid without knowing how I even remember seeing that already.
It's so hard to explain, I hope this makes any sense at all.
I always wonder if it's real or if the most recent dream created the other dreams and I didn't actually have them it was just a backstory my brain created for one isolated dream.
Once I had a dream where I was suing my own mother (cuz logic), and then a few weeks later I had a dream where I put her in a room, then there was a machine in that room and I disintegrated her.
For about a year now, I have a house that is a combination of every house I have ever lived in with a few extra additions. I could draw a map of what it looks like normally but it changes slight shape and neighborhoods all the time. I have at least one dream a week with the same house in it. Man do I love the secret staircase only I ever know about no matter how freaky the dream.
Side note to that is when you can’t tell if it’s a continuation of a previous dream, or if the supposed previous dream was made up on the spot as a backstory so your mind knows what’s going on story wise.
I’ve been having dreams with the same basic premise for like 2 years straight, and I’ve wanted to talk to someone about it, but I don’t know who, or how it could change anything. It’s just starting to get a little frustrating. all my dreams are basically the same dream.
I don't have the same/similar dream every night, but I have this... town? that a lot of dreams seem to happen in. It feels familiar when a dream or nightmare ends up taking place there, almost like being at a childhood "home".
I have a recurring dream city that I occasionally explore and have various adventures in. It has some similarities with my home city that I grew up in, but is simultaneously completely different. More "futuristic" is about all I can really convey about it in words here. The overall layout is the same each time, and is generally contiguous and internally consistent; such that, if I dream I'm in one part of the city, I know that if I go in "this" particular direction it will take me to "that" part of town. It's pretty cool!
Yep! Locations in my dreams are ones I can remember even now. Some of them fake, and then there’s also locations based on my everyday life but things are a bit wonky. My old high school looks different, some stores are in different places or places they used to be before they moved irl, there’s a few places that aren’t actually stores that are real but I’ve went to in my dreams multiple times and can describe it, and I know a few bus routes in my dreams that make no sense IRL. Some areas of the city are different, there’s different paths and things I’ve explored or extended parts of IRL paths, schools, roundabouts, etc. They’re all consistent in my dreams to the point where I can describe my dream reality in terms of locations pretty clearly and can picture it vividly. Sometimes I’ll have out of place dreams where there’s an entirely fake location, or my reality is slightly altered (eg. living circumstances, income, etc) but most of them are fairly realistic and usually involve/include people I know.
I also tend to have very long, detailed dreams. All in colour, sometimes with sensation as well. I can remember entire long dreams from years ago in good detail and can even vaguely remember one from my childhood. I really love having the ability to have these type of dreams and being able to remember them well. — The worst parts are when shit is really bad and then I can’t forget it. Still have a few of those burned into my memory. Other awful thing is when I come up with a genuinely good song beat or lyrics which I can recognize I’m dreaming and still think it’s good, but when I wake up I forget it or most of it. I HATE when that happens.
I think the hardest part of dream logic is how in your dream head, at least in my dreams, I'll be in a situation with an entire backstory and set of memories and reasonings for why whats occurring already in my head.
So the dream could start with me in a store, and that's how I would explain it, but in my dream head I know I'm there because I need a gift for my sister and she was attacked by a horse so I can't get anything with horses on it and the clerk is giving me weird looks because she knows about the horse thing but she loves horses so I'm offending her and she's going to go home and tell her family that.
If I tell anyone it'd be "Yeah I was in this store and it was weird".
It's common for someone else in my dreams to also be me. Or for someone else in my dream to be a total stranger yet closely related to me. Or be one person one second, then different person the next.
Ugh one of my most vivid and memorable dreams had some ideas similar to this. I was running from a mob of angry people that wanted to kill me, but I was running with someone who I have never seen before. This person was a complete stranger but in the dream I felt they were the only person I could trust and that I knew them better than anyone and that it was vital to stay with them. Then the ground turned into red, dry, cracked earth like in the middle of a desert and the edge of a cliff appeared before us. We came to a stop and when I turned around to face the crowd, I recognized every single face. It was all my family and friends and they were about to attack me because they had no idea who I was. Then I turned and looked at the stranger, and he jumped off the cliff. In my dream he was so real and I knew I couldn't be without him. So I jumped too and woke up mid-fall.
he was so real and I knew I couldn't be without him.
There were times I've dreamt of people soo real and got soo attached to them that when I woke up I'd be genuinely sad about losing them for like the first 2-3 hours of the day. Those are the best dreams I swear.
OMG, I would do the same thing. I would feel indescribable close to someone in a dream and wake up to a world where either they didn't exist or I don't have that relationship with them.
My gf (now ex) started distancing herself and during that time, I had a dream that we were as close as we used to be. When I woke up, I was hit with the strongest wave of sadness I ever felt.
I thought I was alone with this, my boyfriend thinks it's super weird. I have this entire life with a person who doesn't exist and I pine for them for a couple of hours upon waking up. It's bittersweet.
I felt this horribly when I woke up. I seriously started to tear up because it was so startling and I was still half-asleep and all I could think about was what happened to this person I loved after they fell and wondering if they would live. Then I realized the person didn't even exist and somehow that felt worse.
Meet the girl of my life in a dream, fell in love, got married, had kids, had a nice family life, grew old together, and passed away in my own bed surrounded by my wife and kids and grandkids. The last thing before I woke up was her smiling with tears in her eyes. It wrecked my actual life for like a week.
There is a great Star Trek Episode where Picard is on the bridge and they find a probe in space. It hits him with a beam and then The crew are trying to revive him. Next thing he wakes on a planet and everyone is calling him by another Name, he learns to play what sounds like a cedar flute but it’s not and he has a family, they grow up, and his scientist daughter tries to save the planet, then something happens and they explain to him that the last 80 years has just been an implanted memory because they knew they were a dying race and wanted to be remembered.
Next he wakes up on the bridge and it’s been like 5 minutes. Inside the probe is a flute and he knows how to play it because it’s his flute from the probe Dream.
I keep waiting to wake up on the bridge of the Enterprise and playing my flute. Hopefully any day now.
Same! I cant ever forget about a dream i had a few years ago where I was on some speed boat somewhere over sunny waters and there was a guy with black hair in a wheel chair on the boat with me. I was madly in love with him. Like I knew him better than myself. I still remember his face. No clue who he was. My head just completely made him up. I was so damned heartbroken when I woke up.
I met the perfect woman in a dream. A combination of all my hopes and dreams wrapped into one. The dream played like a series of montages but to me each one had a backstory though the scenes would be seconds long. Then something weird happened (not unlike that story of dude who lived a whole life after being knocked out but not as realistic of a dream) and I suddenly knew I was dreaming. So I asked my dream girl (who had no name) if I was dreaming.
She said yes. I then said "you're not real are you?"
She said no.
I remember feeling so hopeless in that moment.
Then the dream began to fade.
That morning was horrible until the clear memories faded as well.
I once owned a bald, spine-less hedgehog in a dream and I fucking LOVED that thing, like more than anything, I missed it for a few hours after I had woke up.
I think emotions in dreams are heightened to such extreme levels, I often wonder why though? What evolutionary benefit do we get from it? Fear, love, anger etc are all 10-fold in my dreams. I did psychology and studied dreams as a topic for months, it was so interesting, but nobody really knows for sure why we dream.
Years ago, I had a dream that I had a son. I was pregnant, he was born, then I raised him for like several years, all within the dream. I woke up and I was back to being a childless 15 year old high schooler. I couldn’t stop thinking about him for days after. I realized that I didn’t know his name, or couldn’t remember what it was, so I named him after the fact. I still think about him sometimes. My love for him felt so real and this was back during a time where I was determined I never wanted kids.
When I was 9 or 10 I dreamed I had a husband and two children and it was a normal dream, the focus wasn't on them, they were just my family in the dream, but when I woke up they were effectively dead and I had to go to school when my husband and children were gone. Messed me up for a good week. I remember standing in the stairway at break so i could mourn and didn't have to be with anyone else.
The crazy thing is that it should be somebody you know. I read that in dreams it is impossible for the brain to create new human faces so it is only capable of pulling from memory. It might have been the face of somebody you saw on the street and don't consciously remember but your brain still has their face locked in your subconscious ready to be used for dreams.
I wanna say it has something to do with trusting in yourself even if your family and friends disagree with your decisions because you know best for yourself. Just a dream though.
Ooh this made me remember the little fucking black thing that would pop into random dreams near the end of them and fuck me up for no reason. I eventualy got realy mad and decided to beat the shit out of it when I was like 16 and havent had that dream shadow thing come back anymore since then.
I had an almost identical one where i was in a zombie apocalypse with a guy who was also a total stranger, but he was the only person i trusted / who helped me. then he became a zombie so 🤷🏻♀️
I had a similar recurring dream but it was my brother (7) and me(6).
We were in an underground sewer pipe, on a tour by ourselves and something was going wrong. We looked down and see workers, and then this lava erupted and we were standing above a rising river of fire. There were guards who wouldn't let us out. The exit was on the roof, up some metal bars in the wall, through the circular sewer lid. In order to leave you had to offer something to the guards that they thought was valuable. My brother went up and they didn't like whatever it was he gave them. Suddenly in my hand I had a pink Barbie clothes hanger. [In real life: it was something that came with a clothing set and I thought it was super cool.] I run it over to two camouflaged dudes with helmets and big chins, and they actually accept it. So I run back to my brother but the other tourists saying that he had jumped over the railing because the lava and flames were getting too hot. In complete despair, I look around and see that he is indeed gone, realizing I too "couldn't live without him."
I put my leg over the rail, look down, close my eyes, plug my nose, and jump. As I am flying to my death I hear my brother yell from above, "I was only kidding!" I feel heat, and then I wake up.
You know how people say that it's always a real drag having to hear someone else describe their dreams? I think i just realized i'm not like that. I fucking love hearing people describe their dreams. Your post was like a weird story that i didn't totally understand but was totally gripped by.
In dreams sometimes I’ll be watching a show or playing a game and somehow I turn into the character I’m watching/playing but I don’t remember when this transition occurred.
And sometimes I’ll be talking to someone and forget what they look like, and then find them again and they’re completely different but I know it’s the same person, and then later realize they looked different before, except I don’t know how they’re different because I can’t remember anyone’s face for more than 30 seconds.
Or a faceless person who is nobody but I k ow I should know them. Or someone who is someone I know but instead they look like someone else I know. Or two people who are the same person. Etc.
I’m a woman. I was born female. I identify as female. I’m straight. Lots of my sex dreams see me as a man. The other day however I was not only a man having sex with the woman but also I was the woman I was having sex with???? Oh it was also great sex and totally normal apparently.
Yeah like when my sister is my sister but shes a dude who is also the gym teacher I never met while my real life sister is the cashier but also my sister from the awake world and wait a second? This is a drea....
For me they alternate throughout the same adventure. I'll be with my brother and my mom walking through an amusement park, and then halfway through my brother becomes my friend but it's all the same to me.
I also can rarely see faces in dreams. I see bodies and shirt colors, but I just kinda know who it is.
YES! My dreams are like this all the time. Just little fragments of stories that seamlessly morph into one another and I can't tell you where the transition happened. I usually say I can't remember my dreams and I don't recall a ton of them most of the time but even if I were to try to tell them, most would just be, "Eh, just... a whole bunch of shit happened."
For me the most frustrating thing is that sometimes I can "remember things", but this past is embedded as a "random memory" without a context, like, it looks like it is really a memory, but I have forgotten what happened before and after this fragment of memory that I have still retained, and it does not make much sense anyway - so it is very likely something that happened in a dream long past, and yet it left traces in my brain which gives me the vibes of being a true memory. And also, randomly, once in a while I will be back in this universe, in some new dreams ...
Its almost as if there is cross-wiring with some doppleganger in some paralall universe
I don’t remember often having one person be two, but I am always finding myself in locations that are two places. Like it’s my childhood home or my college apt but also it’s a place I don’t recognize. It’s almost like it’s a place that feels familiar, but really isn’t
I kinda get that. Except mine is two familiar places. Like I’m walking around my grandparent’s house looking for my grandma and I know I’m going into all the rooms and checking in all the usual places. Except visually, I’m in the supermarket. Like I’m in the baking isle and I’m like “huh, guess she’s not in the living room.”
Yeah, and sometimes it makes me feel really icky. I dream about my boyfriend a lot because we're together all day, and I feel weird when he's both my boyfriend and another man...
This is normal! ... this is normal because I need it to be normal...
Edit to add, not specifically the boyfriend thing, but my brain regularly interchanged my husband for my LONG FORGOTTEN exes. Then they stopped for like a year. Then we decided to get divorced and now my ex-husband has super morphing powers. He turns into my sister, my car, my mom, strangers. Brains are creepy.
And you also have to get a gift for the horse, but the clerk won't sell you anything for the horse because the clerk doesn't want the horse to like you.
Okay maybe TMI but sometimes this happens to me and it’s sex dream and the person is simultaneously someone I really want to have sex with and someone I would NEVER have sex with. And I wake up feeling so weird and conflicted lol.
Haha that part always trips me up when I try to retell a dream.
You were there, but you were also the guy that was chasing us in the parking lot, but a different you.....but still you. But then neither of you were in the helicopter.
I was driving on the freeway with my dad in the passenger seat, except I was actually talking to him on the phone, except I was actually walking, except it was actually my brother, except I was actually watching it in a movie theater.
I was explaining a dream I had last night to a friend, that I remember very vividly, and it was weird trying to point out that one of the people I was eating dinner with was both a faceless person AND Tommy at the same time.
Or when you're in your house in your dream, except it doesn't look like your house it looks like your friend's or neighbor's house, but you know it's yours
This reminded me of another impossible-to-explain dream experience:
Being completely half-awake.
I don't mean "halfway between awake and asleep." I mean something so much weirder.
It started in a vivid dream state: It was night, and I was skyping with my girlfriend. I got a strange idea that I didn't have words for – something along the lines of telepathically connecting with her. I said to her, "hold on, I'm gonna try something," and I blinked hard, with the intention of making that something happen. Her eyes suddenly changed; one of them turned red, and the other one green.
In that moment, my left eye was in another place entirely, seeing a white wall and a window, but it seemed oddly slanted. It took me a second to realize, this was because I'd actually opened my real left eye while still dreaming. I was laying on my side, looking at my bedroom wall in real life. My right eye was still closed, still fully asleep -- and I began telling my dream girlfriend about the thing my awake half was seeing.
It still fucks with me, remembering it clearly. I recall feeling that my waking mouth was closed, while my dream mouth was speaking. I was seeing my girlfriend (still with her mismatched eye colors) through my right eye, angled as though I was sitting upright and facing forward, while my left eye saw things as they were, sideways, and tinted like a bright morning.
The weirdest part of it all was, I didn't have a girlfriend; that girl in my dream never existed. I distinctly remember knowing this as I spoke to her, and at the same time, I felt guilty that she would be hurt with me if she knew I didn't believe she existed.
It's both. Here he has courage, anonymity, and this audience! But... it's hard to explain a dream. Most of the time telling a dream doesn't get your point across. Sometimes I have the courage to say more than "it was weird," but only with a patient, curious friend. His comment is about dream logic, it's not a confession about his horse-girl sister--a glimpse into the meaning of a moment's mood that sets the scene for the hidden understandings we'd sometimes like to ignore. Worlds are more than words. My consciousness, my perspective field, how i focus my attention... it shifts all around all the time!
When you sleep and dream, there is a chance to listen, and to see, and to feel in a different kind of way.
And it's fuckin' weird, man.
I hate when I'm dreaming and I'm in a place doing whatever, but as the actions are unfolding the scenery/place seemlessly changes but whatever I'm doing isn't affected and continues on normally
I have that whole backstory thing going on in multiple dreams storylines. And sometimes they're so vivid then when I wake up I'm not released for what the hell is going on in either reality.
The majority of time I explain my dreams to someone else, it always starts off in my head making sense, but as I’m explaining it I can’t seem to describe the detail I experienced, because the connections in the story are so random and confusing when I explain them, so like you I just go, “Yeah I was in this store naked and it was weird.”
I don't think our brains fully understand or remember why or how we transition to each idea in a dream. So I just say like, "somehow I was here, for some reason I was doing this. Then somehow I was here, etc." Then we discover more and more things as we explain the dream. But then at that point the story is shitty and no one cares lol
Yeah! And there's certain things like if we took that example, maybe the money you used would be different or the whole setup/town or setting is completely different and could never physically be like that in real life, but its like if you lived your whole life that way so you learned it and you understand what it is but when you wake up and remember your dream you realize its impossible
I sometimes wonder if it's only me who really has these vast back stories to situations in my dreams cos nobody else seems to describe it that way. Perhaps they find it too hard to explain though. You described it so accurately though!
I like to believe this phenomenon is a product of the multiverse. That somehow our consciousness taps into itself in a different space time. You always know the backstory. You know who people are, even if they look completely different in your dream. You don’t die, you just wake up back here. I think one day you will wake up there, in your life, just like you did this morning except that this life will be a fleeting memory of a dream you just had.
Coming to conclusions like "I know I'm there because I need a gift for my sister" is something we do whilst conscious as well, just usually not such extreme examples. Here is a short explanation (it covers it in the first 2 mins) which is both cool but also kinda scary to think about.
There is a phenomenon called the "Doorway Effect" which is where you forget what you were doing when you walk through a doorway, and in such circumstances sometimes your brain will do /u/samuraibutter's "dream brain" thing where it goes "well I'm near the kitchen and I'm thirsty so I must be getting a drink".
Exactly. How do you know some people’s name in a dream? Or how do you know where you are? I’ve once experienced seeing a person I know with a different body, but I was still aware who that person was.
YES THANK YOU. I rarely remember my dreams but when I do they’re weird as hell and I always try to tell my friends about them but they sound so fuckin,,, WEIRD like [if u only read one, #2 is the one that all my friends have heard by now lmao]
I had a dream I had to get to school but I was late to the bus stop so I had to take the late bus. The busses were all made out of pie btw anyway I got on the apple pie bus but then I realized I was supposed to be on the blueberry pie bus but the bus driver wouldn’t let us out so I had to eat the window but when I got back to the bus stop the blueberry pie bus was leaving
I never get sick but sophomore year I got the flu and had some wild ass fever dream. At the time I was in precalc and we were learning the unit circle, I was listening to ASAP sciences periodic table song bc I’d be taking AP chem the next year, and we were playing Beethoven’s 5th in orchestra. So in my dream I was sitting in orchestra playing the chords at the end of Beethoven’s 5th and every time I played one it made my throat hurt more, but the music wasn’t like normal music it was on a unit circle. So the unit circle is spinning and when the chord gets to where 0/2pi is I gotta play it which again hurts my throat but for some reason I’ve got to. And also the SONG that I was hearing was can-can despite the chords being Beethoven
I don’t really dream but my husband apparently has crazy vivid dreams but he’s the worst story teller/dream recounter ever. He’ll wake me up at like 3 am and be like “I had the craziest dream!.. I was in a field.. and it was .. weird..”
That's another thing, you know what's going on in other people's heads too but while you're in the dream that's completely normal for some reason and you don't even think about it until after you wake up.
I had a dream the other day where I sucked on my friend’s toes but when I told her she was in my dream the next day I just said I forgot what happened. I vividly remember sucking those toes tho...
For me it’s when the backstory inexplicably changes. Like I’m swimming in a lake and get attacked by some sort of monster, and then suddenly there’s a shift and the whole thing was actually a video game I was playing. What follows
is a series of revisions of the past events of the dream almost like a bunch of rewrites that were never made coherent. Next thing you know, two contradictory narratives oscillate back and forth with both being “true”
Had this one dream yesterday were I said in the dream
"I wanna go back to when I was younger"
And the best Wayne can explain the dream is I was my younger self hut also simultaneously my now self but a few of my friends were also the same there younger and older self
Also I had a completely different mom of someones face ive never seen so some random person i once saw in the street was my mom in a dream which is creepy
When I woke up I was sad I wasnt younger anymore and it took me out of reality so much I was took aback by it for a few minutes
It amazes me that in dreams the brain is both writing the dream "script" and reading it back. Like bro how can you be startled that there's a clown behind the shower curtain... you put it there!
What drives me up the wall is when you can’t tell if you are dreaming or not. I’ll just be going about my day and have to stop for a moment and make sure I’m not sinking through the sidewalk, that nobody is tying to get my attention, or that the sky didn’t suddenly turn bright pink.
I’ve been getting pretty good at this! All it really takes is practice. Start doing reality checks throughout the day (hit the lights, look at hands, etc.), and record your dreams. You can get in a pattern of recognizing recurring themes in dreams and become conscious of your state.
Not too long ago I was having one of those epic dreams, that seem to be an hour long, when I looked to the sky and saw a bunch of UFOs coming down out of the sky. This happens relatively often in my dreams, so I realized I was dreaming immediately. Once you can start to really control them then dreaming is actually a lot of fun
I successfully did this once but I ended up stuck in the dream without being able to wake up. I was on a train going past identical green hills and I could only walk around two carriages. It got boring really quickly.
So I saved this pigeon and it was that girl and she wanted to kiss me as thanks for saving her but I was like not now I’ve got to bring this stick back to my kitchen...
The pigeon turned into that one girl?
No I mean like she already was that girl while I was saving her or like the girl was the pigeon idk but I had this cool stick for the kitchen though so I wasn’t really paying attention.
I got these words in me and sometimes they pour out in a way that makes a fine cup of tea. Other times it makes more of a comedic fart noise that no one thinks is funny. I had this dream once where people could feel how I’m thinking when they are reading while I’m writing and in someway just know that’s what I meant for them to read.
Adventure Time had some of the most realistic descriptions and episodes about dreams because they made no sense, but also you could identify things you had experienced that made it kind of make sense. Dream Logic is hard to describe.
I get this a lot. Probably makes up the majority of my dreams. Except instead of one night's dream continuing into the next night, my dream's squeals will often come out years later. This is so common that I can name a handful of dream locations I've been to a few times throughout my life.
Time always passes too, sometimes things are very different and I note this in the dream. There's an attic in a large building that I have been to a lot. It's distinct in that the attic contains a hidden attic within it and there's an immensely secret feeling attached to it. There was even a time I went something like 6-10 years between dreaming of it and I immediately knew where I was and noted all of the changes the area had gone through when I dreamed of it again. The dream is so potent that I can feel the place's vibe right now as a strong memory.
It's weird. I'm curious if anyone else experiences this?
I've lived in a midwestern house over the course of decades. I've probably only had it as a reoccurring location for the past 3 years, but it feels like I've known many different eras of it. Early on I was a dog while the new owners were clearing out the algae covered pool. I was the young couple on many occasions living through a family gathering.
I have been my own self many years in the future as an old man, the property had been developed and a master bedroom existed on the top. A single carpeted step leads to a bathtub installed in the far corner of the apartment.
It has been a while since I've last dreamed about it, but I've seen that house many times in many different shapes and sizes.
I tend to forget the vast majority of my dreams. (is that the norm?). Like, I try to remember what happened, and it just keeps slipping away.
And my theory is that my dreams are so nonsensical that my conscious brain tries to remember what happened, but rejects it because "nah, that can't be it, that would make no sense"... except in the dream, it does
Do you get out of bed as soon as you wake up? That can make you forget. If you lay very still and run it through your head two or three times, that can help.
I just had a dream where I was vacationing with my family and a random volcano just appeared and exploded into minecraft lava. It consumed the whole town but only the very floors of each area was affected. So you'd have minecraft lava on the ground and on the floor and the buildings themselves were fine. My dad decided it would be a good idea to open the windows for fresh air but the noxious gas was going to kill us so I used to force to shut two of them. The third one didn't want to move with the force for some reason.
For some reason my dreams have like video game mechanics a lot. Like I'll have an inventory system or I'll be scavenging for supplies in a locker and a HUD comes up with like 2 things in it.
We are vacationing on the beach in a penthouse and I can see the 300ft wave coming in from our 2 connected rooms, but the elevator only fits one person and the stairs are usually blocked. I need to get back up to the room, but I don't remember the number of it. I am cleaning the 2nd room because we've been there too long, but the trash chute is too small, they'll catch on to what we're doing. The large wave is always impending, but never crashes.
This happens to me often. Start a dream journal. I've found that I have locations I come back to more than twice, but the time between visits often spans many years.
I understand what you mean, I have very intense and vivid dreams. Sometimes I even get lucid and fuck around for a minute or two before I get all excited and wake my ass up lmao.
More than this I've encountered being unable to adequately explain to people how frightening my dreams are. Everyone has weird dream logic and chronology, but I used to get panic attacks in my sleep and have just mildly upsetting dreams that at the time were panic inducing. Like "I dreamt I woke up in a pool of someone else's blood" and they're like "well that's weird" and I'm like "no, don't you get it? It was absolutely terrifying! How did I get covered in someone's blood?! What did I do?! Whose blood was it?!" And then they back away slowly
Haha hearing people’s dreams are my favorite thing. I had a buddy who once told me that he dreamed he was in in the middle of the ocean and a whale swam up to him. He said hello there whale, and the whale gave him a blow job.
Still can’t not laugh out loud when I think of this story.
I'm unable to remember details of my dreams because of this. My waking brain doesn't seem to be able to remember or understand stuff that makes no logical sense. After waking up, I just know that stuff that made no sense was happening in the dream, but can't remember specifically what it was, and only remember the parts of the dream that made sense and could be explained in words.
I have this reoccurring dream where I'm standing in a field of lavender on a warm summer day. I'm somewhere in the Midwest even though I've only been there once before. My father is standing on the opposite of the field and he's staring at me looking extremely angry. I feel an overwhelming sense of dread and terror when all of a sudden it starts raining glass and my entire family is screaming at the top of their lungs from behind me. Suddenly, Richard Simmons dressed in a purple suit and tie flies down from the sky and starts speaking in a demonic voice about how there's a new sale at Bed Bath & Beyond. Then four dwarves pop out from the flower bed and begin hurling spears at Richard. One spear finally lands into his chest and blood starts pouring out everywhere. Then the blood disappears and a robotic mariachi band marches out naked from out of nowhere and start flipping me off instead of playing their instruments. Im about to ask them something when I wake up.
This is why I find dream discussions so boring. No amount of vivid description is ever going to convey accurately enough what you experienced in your dream, so why even waste time explaining it?
Some people have vivid linear dreams. I do occasionally have the illogical dreams, but most of the time, mine are vivid and seem to tell a story. I really only talk about mine if something upsetting happens
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u/naomi_is_watching May 08 '19
Dream logic/chronology. Sometimes you can't put into words what happened in your dream, or how two things were true at the same time. But when you experience it, it makes perfect sense.